| 释义 |
ˈsilting, vbl. n.
[f. silt n. or v. + -ing1.]
†1. Siltage. Obs. rare.
1739C. Labelye Piers Westm. Bridge 5 A Shoal..made up of Sand and of the Washing or Silting of the River. Ibid. 64 The Silting of the River, which must accumulate in a long Course of Years.
2. The action of the verb; an instance of this. Usually with up.
1840Evid. Hull Docks Com. 230 There will be a most rapid silting up of the timber pond. 1860Merc. Mar. Mag. VII. 308 The slight silting of a few inches at Holyhead..Harbour. 1894Jessopp Rand. Roam. ii. 71 That causeway would..help..to bring about a gradual silting up of the little river.
attrib.1876Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. xx. 416 Many of these sandy tracts are no doubt the result of ordinary silting operations. |